stars and smoke (20161008)

Posted on October 8, 2016October 8, 2016 by crow

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the baby lived
and went to
linger with a sister
a velvet ghost of a child
blushing with secret fevers
salty lips, never a smile
no magic kisses to awaken to
bleeding night stars and smoke

——

for
The Elusive Trope
Specks and Fragments
Magnetic Poetry Saturday Challenge

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8 thoughts on “stars and smoke (20161008)”

Pleasant Street October 9, 20165:24 am

Sad and heart-wrenching
bravo for finding that in the tiles-
1. crow October 9, 20166:00 am
  
  Thanks!
merrildsmith October 9, 20166:42 am

Haunting poem.
1. crow October 9, 20166:48 am
  
  Thanks! It’s no Masterpiece Theatre, but…
  1. merrildsmith October 9, 20167:16 am
    
    Hahaha. Actually it might be–one of those Victorian Gothic tales.
Elusive Trope October 9, 20162:27 pm

the early years of a drunk poet…maybe 😉
1. crow October 9, 20162:35 pm
  
  True. I hadn’t leaned into it that way, but I can see that. Originally I had the baby being poisoned by its mother, but that reversed in my head. Author and victim of its own misfortune.
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